Ayesha Jalal (Urdu: عائشہ جلال) is a Pakistani-American sociologist and historian. She is a professor of history at Tufts University and a MacArthur Fellow. The bulk of her work deals with the creation of Muslim identities in modern South Asia.
She is the daughter of Hamid Jalal, a nephew of the famous Urdu fiction writer Saadat Hasan Manto and a civil servant. Ms. Jalal came to New York at the age of 16.
She obtained her BA, majoring in History ...
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Ayesha Jalal (Urdu: عائشہ جلال) is a Pakistani-American sociologist and historian. She is a professor of history at Tufts University and a MacArthur Fellow. The bulk of her work deals with the creation of Muslim identities in modern South Asia.
She is the daughter of Hamid Jalal, a nephew of the famous Urdu fiction writer Saadat Hasan Manto and a civil servant. Ms. Jalal came to New York at the age of 16.
She obtained her BA, majoring in History and Political Science, from Wellesley College, USA, and her doctorate in history from the University of Cambridge. Jalal has been Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge (1980-84), Leverhulme Fellow at the Center of South Asian Studies, Cambridge (1984-87), Fellow of the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars in Washington, DC (1985-86) and Academy Scholar at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies(1988-90). She has taught at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, Tufts University, Columbia University and Harvard University...
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